Receptacle closure



May 31, 1927. 60

- H. T. SNYDER- ECEPTACLE CLOSURE Filed Dec. 29. 1921 Patented May 31,

-UNI.TE,D s ATEsPArENr o IcE.

HERBERT 'r; SNYDER, on NEW Yonx, N. Y., ASS I GNOR TO UPRESSIT rnonucrs conrormrxon, on NEW YORK, N. Y.,

A "CORPORATION OF YORK.

REGEPTACLYEY CLOSURE.

-App1icati6n filed December 29, 1921. Serial No. 525,609.

' This invention relates to Closures for bottles or similar containers. One object of this inventionis to lock said closures against accidental opening, and to insure that fraudulent opening will be betrayed;

More particularly, this invention relates to closures of the type disclosed in the Spengler Patent No. 1,074,907, in which gripping fingers are movable to effective or lnefl'ective positions tov grip or release the container to which it is applied, this invention providing means for preventing movement of said fingers to unlocking position. A further feature of this invention is the construction of. the locking means so that any tampering or fraudulent unlocking will be readily betrayed. I I

Other features and advantages willhereinafter appear. In the accompanying drawings: 4 Figure 1 is a plan view of the closure and the locking device therefor applied to a container, the open or ineffective position of the locking device being. shown in dotted lines;

Figure 2 is a vertical section of the structure shown in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 4 of a detail showing thefastening member of the locking device;

Figure 4 is a view, partly sectioned and in front elevation;

Figure 5 is adetail showing the gripping fingers of the closure member.

The Patent No. 1,07 4,907, noted above, de

scribes a closure for a cont-ainersuch as a bottle, said closure comprising a disk 10 resting near its periphery at 12 upon the-upper edge of the container and having a downwardly extending .flange formed into grip,-

10 of the closure is larger than the opening which it covers so that it is bowed outwardly (as in Figure 2) or inwardly. The closure is made of spring metal so that disk 10 is in reality a two-way detent spring which tends to hold its position when pressed to" one side or the other of the plane of the fulcrumring 12. It is readily apparent that when disk 10 is pressed inwardly,- fingers 11 will move outwardly rotating about the fulcrum -12 and so release the closure from the container. If-the fingers 11 are now pressed inwardly against the container, disk 10 will be swung outwardly about fulcrum 12 to its drawn around the fingers 11, said strip bei 14,'and may also be bent-over fingers and rib as at 25. The

ping fingers 11 by slits such as 15. The diskspring'a's described above, will hold fingers 11 in their gripping position. If the containeris provided with a rib 13 adjacent the opening, the fingers 11 may be bent under as at 14 to more firmly grip the rib.

In'packing or transporting the container there is a possibility that disk 10 will be pressed inwardly and the, container will thus be uncovered, or at least the fingers 11 will be moved to ineffective positions enabling the cover to be readily removed. Moreover the covers may be readily removed for fraudulent purposes such as filling the container with inferior material. To obviate these objections there is provided a. flex- 7 ible metal strip or band 20 which may be provided with a tongue 21 near one .en

, which is drawn through an opening 22 in the other end-so that the ends of the band may be drawn together. By bending the tongue back on itself, the flexible band is' locked tightly-about, the fingers- 11 which are thus prevented from moving to open or closed positions. The tongue may be so constructed that by merely bending it back once to openthe band, it will break off, thus betraying fraudulent opening.

If thecontainer is provided with a rib 13 and the fingers- 11 are bent underas at 14, the flexible band may be similarly bent under as at 24 to grip under the curved ends the top of the p result is that when the band is locked in position around the cap it cannot move vertically with respect thereto, and consequently cannot come ofl accidentally; so that the cap once gripped and handed in'place cannot be removed until the band is taken off.

The above description illustrates a 'preferred form of my device, but it is understood that various changesma be made within the scope of the annexed c aims.

I claim: i

1. In combination, a container, said container having a shoulder, a self gripping and releasable cap closure fitting over the opening of said container and having depending s rin fin ers en a in under said shoulder 105 P e g g g g prevented 2. In combination,

a container, said container having a shoulder, a closure for said 5 container,

tion for covering upon said container having fingers portion to grip 10 portion b said closure having a central porthe opening and resting to form a fulcrum, and depending from said central theshoulder, said central eing swingable about said fulcrum to swing said fingers out of gripping relaa flexible band surhold them in gription With said shoulder, rounding said fingers to ping relation to the shoulder, said band having a flange extendingfl under the shoulder and a second flange extendingover the top of the closure whereby accidental displacement of the closure is prevented.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

HERBERT T. SNYDER. 

